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[MS 523]

and I suspect most people
here should know all about
it long ago, indeed some
people fancyed they knew of
it before I did myself
but press of business and
other things have so occu-
pied me lately that I
could not get time to write
you even a line, but I can
see you want to know
who the lady is. She is then
the addopted Daughter of
Mr Close, small, not at all
handsome, no fortune, and
in

in delicate health. Miss
Annie Platt, the most affec-
tionate little creature you can
image, made an impression
on me at first sight and
very soon after stole my whole
heart, but gave me hers
in return, one too that has
never had the smallest touch
of the little God's dart
until she saw me.
Luck then, is the being
who is to [indecipherable] appreciated
me through this life, and
I hope we will both ar
rive